Google Earth and Maps

Agenda

• Google Earth vs. Maps

  • Earth

    • Layers

    • Sea, Sky. Mars, and Moon

    • History

• MyMaps

  • PlaceMarks

  • GoogleForms to GoogleMap

  • First Concert Form

  • Tour Builder

  • Tour Builder Gallery

  • 360º

    • PhotoSpehere 

    • Street View App (iPhone)

    • Cardboard Camera (App)

    • 360º Cameras

      • Ricoh Theta

    • YouTube 360

  • Embedding Maps in a Google Site

  • Examples- Grades 4-8

    • 20 Ways to Use MyMaps in the Classroom

    • 10 Different Ways to use Maps in the Classroom

Cool Stuff

• Earth Engine Time Lapse

• Smarty Pins

• Geogreeting

• Gigapan

• Lit Trips

Resources

• Kurt Weismer's Google Maps Lessons

• Sign up to Beta Test Expeditions app (Android only)

• Cardboard apps from Google Play Store

• Google Earth

  • Navigating Google Earth

  • Street View

  • Navigating with Search (Find your home)

  • Layers

  • Sky, Mars, and Moon.

  • Timeline

  • Make your own Placemarks

  • Tours

  • Import and Exporting KML & KMZ

  • Creating Placemarks

    • HTML Tag Generator

    • Blogger

• Google Maps

  • My Maps (Formerly Maps Engine Lite)

  • Street View

  • Create a map

  • Create Placemarks

  • Customize Placemarks

    • Add links, videos, and photos to Placemarks

      • Navigating maps

      • Icons on maps- hand moves and selects

      • Two ways to add marker: search or directly

      • Searching

      • Sharing and collaborating

      • Layers

      • Naming layers

      • Plotting points- adding points, formatting icons for points

      • Images by file & URL, video, and URLs

      • Importing external data- We'll do concerts but can do math, earthquake, tribes, battles, etc.

      • Street view

      • Adding lines— different types of lines

      • Polygons- color transparency

      • Driving route/direction (cars. bikes, walking)

  • Using Data (sheets) to create map

  • Using a form to create a shared map.

  • Photosphere App

  • Tour Builder (64-bit browser required such as Safari, Firefox, Chrome Canary*)

    • Scott's Little Tour

Resources

• 10 Uses of Google Maps

• Google Treks

• Google Maps YouTube Channel

• Tour Builder Tutorial

• Earth View extension opens new tabs with aerial views.

• Geo Teachers Institute 2013

• Earth Engine

• https://earthengine.google.org/#intro

• My Maps App (Android only)

• Photosphere app  - take 360 pic and publish to a google map

• Mapping with Google -- A self-paced, online course where you will watch videos (or read text lessons) and apply the skills you learn.

• FAOSTAT- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

• NOAA Data Sets

• Findery - Google Maps-based stories

For Google Earth:

• Real World Math

• GE Teach (High School?)

  • Video: Overview of GE Teach

  • Chrome Add-On

Examples

• Joe Wood's Collaborative Map

  • Google Tour Builder Example (64-bit browser required such as Safari, Firefox, Chrome Canary*)

  • Flat Stanley

  • Science-Based Google Maps

  • Tectonic Plate Map -- Created by 51 sixth grade science students.

  • NOAA Data sets and KML Files

  • Map my Ride Example

• GeoGuessr

• Maps App for iOS

• Maps App for Android

• Google's Maps YouTube Channel

• Create a Story with Google Maps

• Diagon Alley in Maps Street View

• Street View Gallery

• Volcano Project

• San Diego Wild Fires - KPBS & Google

• Brady Bunch Guide to Hawaii

• Google Maps Treasure Map Model (2:00 YouTube Video).

• Time Magazine's Time Lapse

• Cindy Wood's GE in Education Page